Why did we choose the name Kairos Collective?

Kairos (KYE - ros) is considered “God time”.  We live our lives according to “chronos” time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades.  In different parts of our lives, time feels like it flows at different speeds.  Then there are moments in our life when it feel like the Kingdom is breaking in.  Moments when the world seems to be flowing differently because life seems to be aligned, where we deeply feel the presence of the Spirit at work…moments that feel justice is happening, where people’s lives are thriving, when we experience great joy.  Sadly, those moments are fleeting.  And throughout scripture, people speak of those moments as more than just moments…a time of jubilee, shalom, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God. We hold up Kairos, “God time”, as a reality which we want to pay attention for, to be attuned to, and to follow Jesus in a way that lives into those moments.

Collective strikes us as an intentional, disciplined  form of community.  We seek to be more than just a random group of individuals with overlapping sets of interests.  We want to live lives which challenge the dominant trends in our culture at this moment.  Doing that will not occur by happenstance.  We seek to build a community which is multi-racial and LGBTQ+ affirming.  This is hard work of slow, intentional building of trust.  We aspire to live out the beautiful lyric, “we get to carry each other” in lives full of disappointment, pain and suffering, as well as joy, love and laughter.  We want to build a community which enters into intentional community as a gift and a privilege to share our lives together.